Life on the edge : the coming of age of quantum biology / Johnjoe McFadden and Jim Al-Khalili.
Life is the most extraordinary phenomenon in the known universe; but how does it work? It is remarkable that in this age of cloning and even synthetic biology, nobody has ever made anything living entirely out of dead material. Life remains the only way to make life. Are we missing a vital ingredien...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Broadway Books,
[2016?]
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| Edition: | First paperback edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- What is life?
- The engines of life
- The quantum beat
- Finding Nemo's home
- The butterfly, the fruit fly and the quantum robin
- Quantum genes
- Mind
- How life began
- Quantum biology : life on the edge of a storm
- Epilogue : quantum life.